{"product_id":"emptiness-and-temporality-9780804748889","title":"Emptiness and Temporality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics that takes its starting point in the two Buddhist concepts of emptiness (J. kû) and temporality (mujô) that ground the medieval understanding of poetry, and examines their affinity with contemporary Western theory, particularly Derridean différance and deconstruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eEmptiness and Temporality\u003c\/i\u003e] is an example of impeccable scholarship by an author with a through knowledge of source materials and a broad, interdisciplinary theoretical background, scholarship that is beautifully supplemented by deep and precise reading of poems in excellent translation.\" -- Rein Raud * \u003ci\u003eMonumenta Nipponica\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The most notable contribution Ramirez-Christensen makes for western audiences is her introduction and illumination of \u003ci\u003erenga\u003c\/i\u003e verses as an expression of Buddhist awakening . . . She offers readers a much-needed study in Japanese literature, examining what can be a rather inaccessible poetic form with great skill and clarity.\" -- Victor J. Forte * \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In addition to her groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eEmptiness and Temporality\u003c\/i\u003e, which itself constitutes a major contribution to the fields of \u003ci\u003ewaka\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003erenga\u003c\/i\u003e studies, she has published a 416 page annotated translation of the poet Shinkei's fifteenth-century \u003ci\u003eSasamegoto\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMurmured Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) . . . These two new volumes confirm their author as one the world's leading authorities on Shinkei, \u003ci\u003erenga\u003c\/i\u003e, and medieval Japanese poetics.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJapanese Journal of Religious Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen has offered a compelling study of the position of Buddhism within Shinkei's poetics. Building on her great project of studying the life and writings of Shinkei, she has given us a window into a world where the lines between religion and artistic practice were blurred—and, in the case of Shinkei, ultimately disappeared. Ramirez-Christensen's study is an important contribution to comparative poetics and to the ongoing discussions of the subtle relationship between religion and the arts in the medieval world.\" -- Brian Ruppert * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Japanese Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Acknowledgments\tiii  List of Abbreviations\tiii  @toc2:Introduction\t1  @toc1:Part One\tThe Poetics of Renga  @toc2:1.\tThe Grammar of the Renga Sequence\t000  2.\tThe Link as a Structure of Signification\t\t000  3.\tEmptiness, or Linking as Diff'rance\t\t000  4.\tLinking as Hermeneutical Process\t000  5.\tThe Link as Figuration and Metaphorical Shift\t\t000  6.\tDiff'rance and \"the Jo-ha-ky' of the Myriad Arts\"\t000  @toc1:Part Two\tKokoro, or the Emptiness of the Sign  @toc2:7.\tThe Close Link and the Distant Link\t\t000  8.\tEmptiness and Enlightenment in Poetry\t000  9.\tMedieval Symbolic Poetry and Buddhist Discourse\t000  10.\tBeyond Meaning: Beauty Is the Aura of Contemplation  \t000  11.\tUshin: Poetic Process as Meditation\t\t000  12.\tPoetry and the Instantaneous Illumination of Zen\t000  13.\tLinking by Words and by Mind: Understanding,   Interpretation, and Iterability\t000  14.\tThe Chill and the Meager (Hieyase): Poetics and the   Philosophy of the Privative\t000  15.\tThe Mode of Ambiguity Is the Dharma-Body\t\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000  Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405556621655,"sku":"9780804748889","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/emptiness-and-temporality-9780804748889","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}